CHAPTER 14

Identify Your Loyalties

TO BETTER UNDERSTAND yourself as a system, examine three circles of your loyalties:

Colleagues. Those people with whom you have an immediate professional relationship, such as boss, peers, subordinates, and fellow committee members

Community. Current family members, friends, and groups with whom you identify outside of work in your current social, political, and religious affiliations

Ancestors. People from the past with whom you identify who have shaped how you see the world, such as a revered grandparent, a special teacher, as well as the groups of people who form your gender, religious, ethnic, or national roots.

To identify the factions within each circle of your loyalties, start with your colleagues, ...

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